Ongoing practice of arbitrary detention of human rights defenders in OSCE Participating States

Paris - Geneva, December 15, 2008. As the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) publishes its report entitled Human Rights Defenders in the OSCE Region: Challenges and Good Practices today in Vienna, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), remains extremely (...) - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) / Human Rights Defenders

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Source: fidh.org

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